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Show SUGAR RATE WAR HAS BEENJSETTLED New York, May 14. Announcement was undo here today that the sugar j rate war, which has been going on i I for mere than six months among cost- em, western and southern trunk lines I has been amicably settled. The sugar rate fight began last November No-vember by the Illinois Central when It reduced Its tariff ou sugar from j i New Orleans to the central freight I association's territory Ohio, lndl- I ana, etc. four cents a hundred pounds. The eastern roads met this with a cut of eight cents a huudred ixuinda. Tlie Illinois Central cut. which started start-ed the fight, was made to the American Am-erican Sugar Refining company, which wanted to move the product of Its new refinery at Chalrnctte, near New Orleans. |